Monday, 6 February 2017

Latvia 2017 - Pikaso – U (Can Keep Your Cools)

Regular readers will be
well aware that I have a particular love of the variable hip hop
stylings of Europe. I enjoy nothing more than a deep Slavic voice
aggressively spitting out the rhymes, or a lilting Romance language
floating softly over the beats. But sadly, for every one of those
there are a dozen tunes like this hapless ramble into
pointlessness.Yep, Pikaso here delivered a complete shocker in the
Supernova last evening. Mumbling his way through some over
complicated lines in a laughable Bronx-cum-Ventspils accent he looks
somehow both lost and ridiculously over-confident at the same time –
which we have to confess is really quite a skill.After his
performance, the panel understandably ripped into him. There was a
glorious moment when some especially stinging remark came his way,
and he turned to his backing singers for reassurance – only to be
met with three knowing shrugs of agreement. Beautiful. Just
beautiful.By the way, this song is much funnier if you listen to it
imagining that they are singing “U can keep your goose” - just
like Mrs Apocalypse mistakenly thought that they were.

What's this blog for?

Every year, the Eurovision Song Contest chucks up some amazing songs, but only a tiny few ever make it through to the televised final stages. For the couple of dozen that make it to Eurovision proper, there are hundreds that fall by the wayside in the semi-finals and local qualification tournaments. And very often that is where the true gems are to be found.

So Eurovision Apocalypse is here to dredge the best (and occasionally worst) of them out of the musical nether regions, as well as some of the other greatest oddities the contest has thrown up over the last fifty-odd years.